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R. G. NICHOLAS.

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APPLICATION FILYED NOV. 21, I914. NOV. 30,

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R. G. NICHOLAS.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21, 1914.

Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

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U NITE STATES PATENT OFFIGE.

ROBERT G. NICHOLAS, OF CLYDE, KANSAS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 21, 1914. Serial No. 873,354.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT Gr. NICHOLAS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Clyde, in the county of Cloud and State of amined withoutremoving the remaining garments, and likewise to enable the garments tobe readily attached to and removed from the rack without injury to the,garments.

Another object of the invention. is to provide a simply constructeddevice which may be readily increased or decreased in size to adapt itto various kinds of garments or like articles without 11 aterialstructural change.

vVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claims and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device. Fig. 2 is anenlarged detached perspective view of one of the price tag holders. Fig.3 is an enlarged transverse sectional view. Fig. i is a front elevationwith the guard member detached and the end members in transversesection. Fig.5 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. a. Fig. 6 is aview similar to Fig. 3 illustrating a modification in the construction.

' Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a body member 10 which may be of anyrequired length and width, but is preferably of sufficient width toenable advertising matter to be applied thereto above the holdingdevices, as hereinafter more fully explained.

The member 10 will be supported at any required height and attached toany suitable support, but for the purpose of illustration terminal legsor standards 11 are shown to support the member at a convenient height.At its ends the body 10 is provided with lateral end members 1213 and fPatented Nov. 30, 1915.

supporting a guard member 14, the latter being equal in length to thebody 10 and spaced therefrom as illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, 5 and 6.stands vertical, and the confronting face of the member 14 is directedobliquely to the confronting face of the member 10 as illustrated at 15,the oblique or inclined portion opening through the lower edge and thein ner side of the guard member,.as clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6of the drawings.

A plurality of holding devices represented at 16 are inserted throughthe lower The inner face of the body 10 portion of the member 10 andextend upwardly and outwardly toward the inner face of the member 14;and terminate at a relatively slight distance therefrom and above theline of the upper edge of the oblique portion 15 as illustrated in Figs.3 and 6. The

free endsof the members 16 are pointed to enable the garments to bereadily located upon the holding devices. By this means the garments maybe readily located upon the pins 16 by thrusting them upwardly betweenthe members 10-11 and engaging them with the pins 16, the obliqueportions 15 of the guard member materially facilitating the action ofconnecting'the garments with the pins, as the oblique face of the guardmember guides the garments into proper position to engage over the freeends of the pins, and without the necessity for manipulating thegarments to find the points of the pins which are covered and protectedby the body of the'guard member. Thus it will not be necessary for theoperator to see the pins or to note the places where they pass throughthe garments, as the oblique face 15 automatically guides the garment into proper position relative to the pins. This is an important feature ofapplicants device and materially facilitates the operation of disposingthe garments upon the pins.

The members 16 are usually formed of pointed wire and are thrust throughthe body of the member 10 in suitable apertures formed therethrough, theapertures being smaller than the wires which form the supporting membersso that considerable force will be required to insert the pins into themember 10, the shrinkage and reaction of the pins 12 and the ranged topoint upwardly and outwardly, as

illustrated in Figs. 3 and 6, to prevent the garments from slipping fromthe pins after they have once been located thereon, while alt the sametime the garments may be read- 1 y applied thereto.

Garments of different forms may be suspended from the supporting members16, but the improved device is more particularly designed to supportstockings of various sizes, but it will be understood that it is notdesired to limit the improved device for use in connection with anyparticular kind of garment. The size or location of the members 16 maybe readily varied as required, and placed at any distance apart.

The improved device may be constructed of any suitable material, but theparts will preferably be constructed of Wood, except price card holders.At-

removed when a suflicient force has been tached to the outer face of themember 14 opposite each of the supporting members 16 is a framerepresented as a whole at 18 to support price cards and other data asmay be preferred.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

l. The combination with a fixed guard having a straight face and aninclined face, of a suspension device supported to project toward theguard with its free end disposed in spaced relation to the straight facethereof and arranged in a plane above and upon one side of the saidbeveled face of the guard. V

2. The combination with a fixed guard having a straight face and aninclined face, of a suspension device supported to project toward theguard and terminating at its outer extremity in spaced relation to thestraight face thereof with the said inclined face of the guard slopingdownwardly and laterally away from the said outer extremity of thesuspension device.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT G. NICHOLAS.

\Vitnesses C. F. ARMSTRONG, C. E. MURPHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of I'atents, Washington, D. 0.

